WARISH (Feat. TONY HAWK’s Son) Release New Track ‘You’ll Abide’

Southern California trio WARISH share a new track from their forthcoming full length debut Down In Flames on RidingEasy Records today. Listen to “You’ll Abide” below.

WARISH hit the road this fall in support of the album with San Francisco stoner rock progenitors ACID KING, who will also reissue their legendary Busse Woods album on RidingEasy on August 30th. See all dates below.

Imagine if early, weird Aberdeen NIRVANA were crossed with low budget horror-obsessed garage-punks. You’d have sinister vibes with a visceral, twisted weirdness and bludgeoning riffs. Some might call it nightmarish, we call it WARISH.

WARISH is a very newly minted SoCal trio formed in early 2018 that has wasted no time making its presence known. The band formed when guitarist/vocalist and pro-skater Riley Hawk (son of skating legend Tony Hawk) and drummer Nick (Broose) McDonnell decided they wanted to try their hand at something more distinct than they’d done previously.

“We wanted to do simpler riffs and a fun live show,” Riley explains. “A little more punk, a little bit of grunge… a little evil-ish.”

Their sound takes cues from a variety of cool underground sounds and twists it all into an energetic and exciting fist to the face of dark fury. Hawk’s effect-laden vocals hearken to 90s industrial monsters MINISTRY and David Yow‘s tortured caterwaul in SCRATCH ACID. The guitars are heavy and powerful, though decidedly not straightforward cookie cutter punk; more like Cobain‘s and Buzz Osbourne‘s wiry contortions. The rhythms bash and pummel right through it all with aggressive force ensuring that nothing gets overly complicated and the horrors keep coming throughout the band’s uh, warlike assault.